Anthropic Accuses Alibaba of Coordinated Access Campaign

Anthropic has accused Alibaba Group Holding Ltd. of waging a large-scale effort to illicitly access its Claude artificial intelligence model using thousands of fraudulent accounts.

According to Anthropic, operators linked to Alibaba’s Qwen AI lab targeted Claude’s software engineering and agentic reasoning capabilities. The company characterized the campaign as the biggest attempt so far by a Chinese company to piggyback on the work of top US labs.

Source: Bloomberg